HP Contract Job Trends in London

HP
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of HP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HP over the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Hewlett-Packard Company.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 300 321
Rank change year-on-year -113 +21 +6
Contract jobs citing HP 40 72 71
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.54% 0.44%
As % of the Vendors category 0.47% 1.16% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 37 50
10th Percentile £154 £159 £150
25th Percentile £200 £275 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £496 £388
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% +27.87% -17.11%
75th Percentile £570 £608 £499
90th Percentile £673 £715 £539
England median daily rate £450 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +2.86% -2.78% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 19 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.13
Median hourly rate - £25.15 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year - +19.96% -10.79%
75th Percentile - - £23.80
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £19.33 £25.15 £18.13
% change year-on-year -23.14% +38.72% -22.85%

All Vendors
London

HP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,577 6,202 7,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.61% 46.41% 43.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,582 4,032 4,487
10th Percentile £331 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £514 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +1.33% -3.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 114 79
10th Percentile £16.70 £16.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £19.50 £23.00 £24.34
Median hourly rate £35.75 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.15% -28.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.56 £37.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £82.50
England median hourly rate £26.37 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.83% -28.14% -20.27%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

HP job vacancy trend in London

HP
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP

HP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in London over the 6 months to 28 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HP in London

HP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP

HP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the London region over the 6 months to 28 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -22 7 £625 +26.14% 5
West London -21 3 £145 -
HP
England

HP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.50%) Confluence
3 1 (2.50%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (5.00%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (2.50%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.50%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (2.50%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 19 (47.50%) Azure
2 8 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (17.50%) OpenShift
4 6 (15.00%) AWS
4 6 (15.00%) Entra ID
5 5 (12.50%) GCP
6 4 (10.00%) OneDrive
7 3 (7.50%) IaaS
7 3 (7.50%) PaaS
8 1 (2.50%) GitHub
8 1 (2.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.00%) Firewall
2 7 (17.50%) DHCP
2 7 (17.50%) DNS
3 4 (10.00%) LAN
3 4 (10.00%) Network Security
3 4 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (10.00%) WAN
3 4 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (7.50%) SMTP
4 3 (7.50%) VPN
5 1 (2.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (7.50%) Big Data
2 3 (7.50%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.50%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.50%) PowerCenter
3 1 (2.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (27.50%) JIRA
2 8 (20.00%) Selenium
3 5 (12.50%) HP UFT
4 4 (10.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.00%) Cypress.io
5 2 (5.00%) GitLab
5 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (5.00%) LoadRunner
5 2 (5.00%) Postman
5 2 (5.00%) TestDirector
6 1 (2.50%) Appium
6 1 (2.50%) JMeter
6 1 (2.50%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.50%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (30.00%) Finance
2 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.50%) Banking
4 4 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) General Ledger
5 2 (5.00%) Private Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Hardware Technician
2 6 (15.00%) Field Service Technician
2 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Senior
2 6 (15.00%) Tester
3 5 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Test Manager
4 4 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Lead
5 3 (7.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) Kafka
2 3 (7.50%) Middleware
3 2 (5.00%) Playwright
3 2 (5.00%) REST
3 2 (5.00%) SOAP
4 1 (2.50%) JSON
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.50%) Terraform
4 1 (2.50%) XML
4 1 (2.50%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (10.00%) iPhone
2 3 (7.50%) Clustering
2 3 (7.50%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.50%) PKI
3 2 (5.00%) Fat Client
3 2 (5.00%) iPad
3 2 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.00%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (27.50%) Windows
2 10 (25.00%) Linux
3 7 (17.50%) Windows Server
4 4 (10.00%) Unix
5 2 (5.00%) AIX
5 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (5.00%) Solaris
6 1 (2.50%) HPUX
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (2.50%) SUSE
6 1 (2.50%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) DevOps
2 12 (30.00%) Test Automation
3 9 (22.50%) Agile
3 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (22.50%) Migration
4 8 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 7 (17.50%) CI/CD
5 7 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (17.50%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (15.00%) AI
6 6 (15.00%) Change Management
6 6 (15.00%) Customer Service
6 6 (15.00%) Defect Management
6 6 (15.00%) ITIL
6 6 (15.00%) Regression Testing
6 6 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (15.00%) System Integration Testing
6 6 (15.00%) Test Management
6 6 (15.00%) Validation
7 5 (12.50%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.00%) Java
1 6 (15.00%) SQL
2 3 (7.50%) C#
2 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Degree
2 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.50%) CISSP
5 1 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.50%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.50%) QA
2 6 (15.00%) SLA
3 3 (7.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.50%) GRC
System Software
1 9 (22.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (12.50%) Docker
3 3 (7.50%) BitLocker
3 3 (7.50%) Hyper-V
3 3 (7.50%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (7.50%) Terminal Services
3 3 (7.50%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (27.50%) HP ALM
2 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (12.50%) Ansible
3 5 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 3 (7.50%) Nagios
4 3 (7.50%) Puppet
4 3 (7.50%) vCenter Server
4 3 (7.50%) vMotion
5 2 (5.00%) Grafana
5 2 (5.00%) NetBackup
5 2 (5.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.50%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.50%) Oracle
2 7 (17.50%) VMware
3 5 (12.50%) Cisco
3 5 (12.50%) Zscaler
4 4 (10.00%) Splunk
5 3 (7.50%) Citrix
5 3 (7.50%) Google
5 3 (7.50%) Symantec
6 2 (5.00%) Apple
6 2 (5.00%) Avaloq
6 2 (5.00%) Dell
6 2 (5.00%) Micro Focus
6 2 (5.00%) Veritas
7 1 (2.50%) Brocade
7 1 (2.50%) EMC
7 1 (2.50%) Fujitsu
7 1 (2.50%) Informatica
7 1 (2.50%) Meraki
7 1 (2.50%) SimCorp